When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

A sunset will color your dreams.And a sunrise will color your smile.It's all God asks.

The real hell of this, " he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.